LYRICS TO SILVER

Push (3:50)
Believe Me (3:53)
Kill For You (3:35)
Silver (4:15)
Freaky Be Beautiful (3:59)
Break Her Down (4:27)
Into Everything (4:15)
Picture Elvis (3:12)
Machine Punch Through (4:26)
This Shrieking Love (5:14)
Low Low Low (3:15)

PUSH

A little bit more than I ever wanted
A little bit more than you could ever say
Did you really think that I'd forgotten?
Kicked out the windshield, water coming in
Fade away, fade away

Push just a little too late
Is this what you want? What you need?
Is this what you wanted me to be?
Always loved me strapped to you
Lock it down and drive me through

I tried to give more than you thought I'd take now
Taking more than you could ever say
Push come to shove you kicked me in the head
You knock me down I ripped the handle off again
I wanted more than this, wanted more than this
Fade away, fade away

Push just a little too late
Is this what you want? What you need?
Is this what you wanted me to be?
Always loved me strapped to you
Lock it down and drive me through

Hands gripped to the wheel held too tight to feel
Face pressed to the glass, please don't ask
One more breath, one more, it's alright
I could never give enough, have enough, be enough
You could never stand to stay there
Only only only, fade away, fade away

Push just a little too late
Is this what you want? What you need?
Is this what you wanted me to be?
Always loved me strapped to you
Lock it down and drive me through

Push just a little too late
I wanted more than this
I expected more than this


BELIEVE ME

Believe me, touched by God
Touched by you
You know I never asked you to
Believe in me, it's all I can do
Things you never said

And wanting you to reach out from the dark
To wake up from the cold
And wanting you is all I can do
Things you never said

Believe me, did we ever try?
Believe me, keep it all to yourself
Believe me, I never wanted to die

I'll take the note, the words that say I'm weak
That show I should have died
Crumpled in the fire
I'll take the note, it's all I can do
Things I never said

Believe me, did we ever try?
Believe me, keep it all to yourself
Believe me, I never wanted to die

So I'm burning up your pictures
Lay you in this shallow grave
So I'm washing clean your body
For the promises I never made
I'm burning up your pictures
Still my love remains the same


KILL FOR YOU

I want, I want, I wanted to

You came to grind me into stone
Polishing the angled flesh and bone
The smallest cut to drain my soul
Precious words of comfort swallowed whole
Oh no she said
I tried for love
And I died for love
But I'd kill for you

I want, I want, I wanted to

You tore the makeup from my face
With every acid word you ever knew
Now every line and crack exposed
Exploited fully till each scar shone through
Oh no she said
I tried for love
And I died for love
But I'd kill for you

I never said I'd promise anything
That's alright, I know you wanted to
I never meant to promise anything
That's alright, I know you wanted to
I never ever promised anything
That's alright, I know you wanted to be with me

You came to grind me into stone
Polishing the angled flesh and bone
The smallest cut to drain my soul
Precious words of comfort swallowed whole

Strip me from the top down
Rip me from the raw
Into this higher place
Don't want to die


SILVER

Close your eyes
Your Christ has come
The crippled boy that you once knew
The charmed enigma chosen one
With painted lips, skin ripped and torn
Come touch and feel and lick and smell
This envy that I've worn so well
Everybody wants
Everybody says
Everybody begs in time

So drink me in
Like tainted wine
Come bite down on my sharpened cup
And taste the dreams that numb the mind
A simple word
A harmless glare
That binds me with the thinnest thread
And pins me down to pleasure's bed
Everybody wants
Everybody says
Everybody begs in time

And you will be the first to fall
Every feeling will dissolve
We are silver
Morphine baby's final breath
Ever smothered to my chest
We are silver

So shy and poised
With few regrets
A Judas kill, a complex thrill
A memory I won't soon forget060;BR> Been washed out clean
Till all runs dry
Come touch and feel and lick and smell
A hurt that only you could sell
Everybody wants
Everybody says
Everybody begs in time

And you will be the first to fall
Every feeling will dissolve
We are silver
Morphine baby's final breath
Ever smothered to my breast
We are silver

Trip
Sister I will follow you
This time
Knowing I will follow you

Everybody wants
Everybody says
Everybody begs in time

And you will be the first to fall
Every feeling will dissolve
We are silver
Morphine baby's final breath
Ever smothered to your breast
We are silver
Silver


FREAKY BE BEAUTIFUL

I'm walking this railing's edge just to feel this good
And freaky be beautiful you came following me like I knew you would
You tickle my fancy, tickled my sense of fun
You claw like a rack on my back ever thickening
It's just begun

Freaky be beautiful, he falls
And his blood it sprays so cold
On my face, he feels so cold

My crallow bird waiting, shallow breathed shrapnel lung
I'm pressing the beak to my cheek and it's thickening
Kick off turns the sun

Freaky be beautiful, he falls
And his blood it sprays so cold
On my face, he feels so cold

Freaky be beautiful, oh no, oh no

Freaky be beautiful, he falls
And his blood it sprays so cold
On my face, he feels so cold

So I rot, down inside
For the loss, and I will not deny
I'm winding...
Dig it out...
Freaky be...


BREAK HER DOWN

It never happened
It never will
It's not a memory
There's no way to prove this isn't real
Never happened, never

You're not a victim
I'm not to blame
You've seen my honest smile
My pretty face and all my gentle ways
Never happened, never

And she knows it's a sin
Break him down, break her down again
It's a sin
Force him down, force her down again

If you play quietly
I'll let you go
If you play quietly
No-one here will ever, ever know
Never happened, never

She knows it's a sin
Break her down, break her down again
It's a sin
Force him down, force her down again

So please remember me
I never meant to tell you lies
So please remember me
The one who stroked your hair
And dried your eyes

I never wanted this to be
I never wanted this to be
I never wanted this to be
So I never wanted more
I never told you lies
I never wanted more
I'm just a boy
Never wanting, never

And she knows it's a sin
Force him down, force her down again
It's a sin
Force him down, force her down again


INTO EVERYTHING

Quarter slot, the picture's hot
You can be so damn ugly
Flickering is sickening the show
Sexual intellectual
Feel so raw makes me crazy
Pocket full of quarters left to go

I said I'm fine
Work the line
Punch the clock it never meant that much
Wake up, wake up it's here again
Whiskey shot
Drink it up
One more bottle just to wash the cut away
Into everything

My wife's alone, the kids at home
She can be so damn ugly
Her face is blurred without a word to say
I spray the dream with gasoline
Just one match, be so easy
Splatterings of you along the way

I said I'm fine
Kill the line
Punch the clock it never meant that much
Wake up, wake up it's here again
On a whim, stole the car
Heard the shot ring out it seemed so far away
Into everything

Quarter slot, the picture's hot
You can be so damn ugly
Flickering is sickening the show
Sexual intellectual
Feel so raw makes me crazy
Pocket full of quarters left to go


PICTURE ELVIS

For Barbara R.

She breathes through the book
Measures a picture there
Picks up a knife
Cuts it to wallet size

Now she has lived
Now she has breathed
And now she's tasted heaven but the trip doesn't sting
And all she wanted was a photograph

Rain on my tongue
Feels like I'm tasting God
Silver and gold
Drinking the riches up

Back to the night
And if I died
I'm gonna ask my questions on the other side
And all she wanted was a photograph

Mask of the city hangs in mock deliberation
I step outside the wire while the sun strips off my cocaine
Bent like a banshee while my cup is overflowing
Another brutal ending I know I'm an animal story telling

And she breathes through the book
Said that she never knew
Question is easy
But the answer is hard to take

The binding cracks
And the words will fade
But she keeps the picture in the frame that she made
And all she wanted was a photograph


MACHINE PUNCH THROUGH

You came to rape me of my intellect
I gave you pieces off my pride
Lay down naked and play with you
Posing quietly looks a lot like me
Your fucking pistol's not so dangerous
Stick it any place you please
Rip me open cause you're dead inside
And what you thought you'd find it looks a lot like me

And you believe that I'll believe in
All she said
One little trick she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through
All she said
One little word she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through punch through

Another schoolboy goes to hell for it
Believing everything he reads
Sell my soul out one nickel at a time
Turn the last page down I'm not that far behind
Your cigarettes become a torch for me
Burn it deep into my arm
Watch the welts rise, come blistering through
And what you thought you'd see it looks a lot like you

And you believe that I'll believe in
All she said
One little trick she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through
All she said
One little word she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through punch through

I'm bent out of shape
Desperate to whine
Screaming so loud that I don't make a sound
Strung out on speed
Maxed out on lies
I know you're to blame but I can't say why

And you believe that I'll believe in you
And it's not so hard
And you believe that I'll believe in you
And it's not so hard
And you believe that I'll believe in
All she said
One little trick she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through
All she said
One little word she said
But it was lost on me
Machine punch through punch through

So cut your name into my chest
See my mind exploded
Please don't ask and I won't offer any more


THIS SHRIEKING LOVE

I came screaming down the highway
Looking for a place to fly
Stopped outside the window
It's only in the blood
Into the kitchen
Found you lying on the floor
There I tied you up with wire
Can't feel you any more
You gave yourself to me
I offered you to God
Wrapped the curtains round your body
It's only in the blood

This shrieking love
Comes crashing down
This shrieking love
Is not the one you thought you'd found
Oh it's only in the blood

It's a deadly clear addiction
A body's breath away
A long hot bath in acid fast
It's only in the blood
On down the highway
Looking for a place to fly
Outside the window
It's only in the blood

This shrieking love
Comes crashing down
This shrieking love
Is not the one you thought you'd found
Oh it's only in the blood

Nauselbaum


LOW LOW LOW

Who better than me
Fall into be seen
Draw fire and then
Pray quiet
I'm too low

Stay down stay down
Cold earth to the ground
Too late to be
So real but
I'm too low now

And if I ever wanted you back to me
Too low now
And if I ever wanted you back to me
Too low low

Spread gently for me
Too hard to be heard
With better words
I'm better than
Too low low

Stay on stay on
Too late to be gone
With better words
I'm better than
Too low low

And if I ever wanted you back to me
Too low now
And if I ever wanted you back to me
Too low now


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